How to Use slob in a Sentence

slob

noun
  • Some poor slob got robbed.
  • The slob look just doesn’t work.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 15 Aug. 2025
  • But they were seated just across from two slobs, which spoiled the whole effect.
    — Linda Fargo, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 Feb. 2018
  • If a dish didn’t have to be cleaned, then maybe the slobs would have an argument.
    — Peter King, SI.com, 11 Dec. 2017
  • No one here has a fancy job, and everyone dresses like a slob.
    — The New York Times, NOLA.com, 7 July 2017
  • An exhibitionist and slob, who brought strange men to the house.
    — New York Times, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Can the board really fine an entire group because one person is a slob?
    — Ronda Kaysen, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2018
  • Hitch swoops in and pretends to be Sara's boyfriend to get rid of the poor slob whose tired lines are failing on her.
    — Cristina Everett, EW.com, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Laura was a slob who never picked up after herself or her son, did the dishes, or picked up a broom.
    — Mallory Ortberg, Slate Magazine, 16 Feb. 2017
  • We Americans get slandered around the world as a bunch of fat, lazy, selfish slobs.
    — Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Being bit, scratched, while having to control some slob who hasn't showered in weeks is not fun either!
    — Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 4 May 2017
  • How often has Matthau played this character, the lovable slob?
    — Literary Hub, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Mormons are famously clean-living, which is both a great good and much scorned by slobs who can’t keep their lives in order.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 20 Jan. 2024
  • Advice columns are always directed at some other slob (or jerk or wing nut).
    — New York Times, 1 June 2018
  • Everything is athleisure and everybody looks like a slob.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2026
  • The parks wouldn’t be so bad if people weren’t slobs and cleaned up after themselves like decent human beings.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 7 June 2024
  • There's also a fine line between over-curating yourself and being a slob.
    — Charles Trepany, USA Today, 15 June 2026
  • Figuring out what to wear on a plane to stay comfortable without looking like a total slob can be tricky.
    — Niccolo Serratt, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Oct. 2024
  • What is the best way to get delicious bites out of the intricate crevices of the lamb shoulder bones without looking like a slob?
    — Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2021
  • My daughter is a slob and refuses to respect my pleas to keep her room and her bathroom (which is also our guest bathroom) clean and tidy.
    — Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Shed your reputation as the office slob by removing all the garbage from one corner of your home, and fielding work calls from there.
    — Caity Weaver, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2020
  • The old Honor had an ambitious cocktail program but managed to hold an appeal for beer slobs and lovers of rail drinks, as well.
    — John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2024
  • In the spot, Mayfield is a semi slob and has an annoying habit of singing the Oklahoma fight song in his sleep.
    — Bob McManaman, The Arizona Republic, 16 Oct. 2021
  • The trick to living in sweats without feeling (and looking) like a slob in the process is to style the staple with a little bit of consideration.
    — Megan Gustashaw, GQ, 23 June 2017
  • So by the time I'm done golfing and walking, walking and golfing, everybody's still hugging their pillow, putting slob over it.
    — Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The apparently irresistible rise of the slob is hardly our most important problem.
    — Samuel Goldman, The Week, 8 Jan. 2022
  • The only issue is that her 12-year-old daughter is a total slob and doesn’t know the definition of cleaning up after herself.
    — Annie Lane, cleveland, 17 Sep. 2022
  • This vainest of Falstaffs is a genuine slob whom Boritt houses in a shabby bachelor pad wallpapered in purple zebra stripes.
    — Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2021
  • One of his most recent slob-adoptees is Princess Olympia of Greece, whose neat blonde iteration is an enviable example of the style.
    — Hannah Coates, Vogue, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Seth Rogen is Fred Flarsky, a sweet-spirited slob and out-of-work advocacy journalist.
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 2 May 2019

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